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2011-04-28 Afghanistan

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Posted by Besoeker 2011-04-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Carving up the great armpit? And how do you hold your piece? And you are getting what for your money?

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2011-04-28 00:49|| 2011-04-28 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Ditto PAKISTAN + proposed formulation of several new Provinces organized along more Ethno-Cultural lines.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-04-28 02:07|| 2011-04-28 02:07|| Front Page Top

#3 OOOPPSIES, forgot DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > FEARS THAT INDIA RISKS ITS OWN "FUKUSHIMA". Proposed construx of six Reax at new NucPlex in Quake-active/prone Jaitapur.

IMO Artic read, CHINA = BEIJING ONCE AGAIN TO THANK THE GOD OF EARTHQUAKES FOR FUKUSHIMA, + PERHAPS JAITAPUR, ETC. IN FUTURE.

Must be China's lucky time - JAPAN + MOST OR ALL OF INDJUH. LT ROLLBACK OF US POWER + INFLUENCE IN KEY EAST, SOUTH ASIAN REGIONS BY OWG-NWO POLITICS, EARTHQUAKE, + GWCC.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-04-28 02:15|| 2011-04-28 02:15|| Front Page Top

#4 PRAVDA > CHINA ARTFULLY STEALS RUSSIA'S LAND.

ARTIC = Moscow fears economic domination by Rising China moreso that its military, nuclear arsenals.

and

* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > TURKEY: BOSNIA, SERBIA SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO JOIN NATO + EU.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-04-28 02:18|| 2011-04-28 02:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Here is an ethnographic map of Afghanistan.

If you're going to carve it up, the best bet is a north-south split, with the Pashtun south having its capital as Kandahar, and Kabul with Khyber pass as the capital of the north, on a rough line west to south of Herat, at the Iranian border.

Pakistan might be encouraged to annex the South, so that there would be unified Pashtun tribes under a single authority. They have long used the border for mischief, and national unification would end that.

Without the Pashtun, northern Afghanistan would be both relatively peaceful and relatively prosperous, once various mines were opened up for development.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-04-28 10:49|| 2011-04-28 10:49|| Front Page Top

#6 True, Anonymoose. Unfortunately the Chinese have already secured rights to many of those minerals.

Posted by lotp 2011-04-28 12:59|| 2011-04-28 12:59|| Front Page Top

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